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In its final year of inspiral, a stellar mass ($1 - 10 M_\odot$) body orbits a massive ($10^5 - 10^7 M_\odot$) compact object about $10^5$ times, spiralling from several Schwarzschild radii to the last stable orbit. These orbits are deep in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Scott A. Hughes

The capture of a stellar-mass compact object by a supermassive black hole and the subsequent inspiral (driven by gravitational radiation emission) constitute one of the most important sources of gravitational waves for space-based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-02 Carlos F. Sopuerta

The swirling-Kerr black hole is a novel solution of vacuum general relativity and has an extra swirling parameter characterizing the rotation of spacetime background. We have studied the gravitational waves generated by extreme mass ratio…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-11 Yuhang Gu , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the most promising sources for future space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, such as LISA. To fully leverage the scientific potential, the GW templates required for parameter estimation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 Viktor Skoupý

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), comprising a stellar-mass compact object (CO) orbiting a supermassive black hole (BH), are key targets for future space-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories. Incorporating the spin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-26 Qiuxin Cui , Wen-Biao Han

Scalar fields coupled to three-dimensional gravity are considered. We uncover a scaling symmetry present in the black hole reduced action, and use it to prove a Smarr formula valid for any potential. We also prove that non-rotating hairy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Maximo Banados , Stefan Theisen

Scientific analysis for the gravitational-wave detector LISA will require theoretical waveforms from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) that extensively cover all possible orbital and spin configurations around astrophysical Kerr black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Soichiro Isoyama , Ryuichi Fujita , Alvin J. K. Chua , Hiroyuki Nakano , Adam Pound , Norichika Sago

Ultra-light scalar fields provide an interesting alternative to WIMPS as halo dark matter. In this paper we consider the effect of embedding a supermassive black hole within such a halo, and estimate the absorption probability and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Arturo Urena-Lopez , Andrew R. Liddle

We describe a new kludge scheme to model the dynamics of generic extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs; stellar compact objects spiraling into a spinning supermassive black hole) and their gravitational-wave emission. The Chimera scheme is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Carlos F. Sopuerta , Nicolas Yunes

The interest in the implications that astrophysical observations have for the understanding of the structure of black holes has grown since the first detection of gravitational waves. Many arguments that are put forward in order to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-31 Anna Zulianello , Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Stefano Liberati , Stefano Ansoldi

One of the important targets for the future space-based gravitational wave observatory LISA is extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), where long and accurate waveform modeling is necessary for detection and characterization. Modeling EMRI…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-11 David Bronicki , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Leo C. Stein

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), i.e. binary systems comprised by a compact stellar-mass object orbiting a massive black hole, are expected to be among the primary gravitational wave (GW) sources for the forthcoming LISA mission. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 Matteo Bonetti , Alberto Sesana

The width of a resonance in a nearly integrable system, i.e. in a non-integrable system where chaotic motion is still not prominent, can tell us how a perturbation parameter is driving the system away from integrability. Although the tool…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-08 Ondřej Zelenka , Ondřej Kopáček , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), consisting of a stellar-mass black hole orbiting a supermassive black hole, are among the primary targets for future space-based gravitational wave detectors. By analyzing the emitted gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-24 Li Huang

Extreme mass ratio bursts (EMRBs) have been proposed as a possible source for future space-borne gravitational wave detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). These events are characterized by long-period,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicolas Yunes , Carlos F. Sopuerta , Louis J. Rubbo , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

The non-linear gravitational wave (GW) memory effect is a distinct prediction in general relativity. While the effect has been well studied for comparable mass binaries, it has mostly been overlooked for intermediate mass ratio inspirals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Tousif Islam , Scott E. Field , Gaurav Khanna , Niels Warburton

We investigated the shadows and thin accretion disks of Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar (EMS) black hole. Firstly, we investigated the influence of EMS parameters on the black hole shadow using the null geodesic method and constrained these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-03 Yingdong Wu , Ziqiang Cai , Zhenglong Ban , Haiyuan Feng , Wei-Qiang Chen

A small body orbiting around an accreting massive object and periodically crossing its accretion disk is a common configuration in astrophysics. In this work, we investigate the secular evolution of extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-26 Yuhe Zeng , Zhen Pan

Future space-borne interferometers will be able to detect gravitational waves at $10^{-3}$ to $10^{-1}$ Hz. At this band extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) can be promising gravitational wave sources. In this paper, we investigate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-30 Shuo Xin , Wen-Biao Han , Shu-Cheng Yang

Current simulations of the rate at which stellar-mass compact objects merge with supermassive black holes (called extreme mass ratio inspirals, or EMRIs) focus on two-body capture by emission of gravitational radiation. The gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 M. Coleman Miller , Marc Freitag , Douglas P. Hamilton , Vanessa M. Lauburg
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